The old forums had a forum search, and I am aware that it was buggy (though, it seemed to work fine for me but that was a while back). However, I really think the updated forums would benefit by including a search function. It is a pain trying to search for certain items that may not be listed in user shops or the trade center but could be listed somewhere in the forums.

And before someone suggests google search (i.e. "site:subeta.net"), I am pretty sure that doesn't work for the new forums. Each search I do only lists posts from the old forums. And when I narrow down my search to results from less than one month ago, I don't get any forum results. Maybe I am just doing something wrong, idk.

I appreciate any feedback.

I think it has to do with the forums being php now, which is pretty shitty if so.

IF they aren't going to be able to be indexed by google (mirror a back-end text only page like some online forum software does, something) then the site needs to re-implement it's own search.

Curious if has any comment, if this was weighed in the decision to switch the programming up at all (I'm sure the benefits were many, but this is a pretty big loss).